So, as most of you know, I used to be a "semi" active member here on the forum and in the game. In the last couple weeks I've been getting back into it, as a slightly more casual member. (I'm not going to read and post in EVERY SINGLE THREAD anymore.)

So, since most of you had the audacity to join DF in the last two years instead of before, I have no idea who you are, and you don't know me at all. To speed up the process, I'd like to introduce myself to you all again. Those of you who already know me can skip to the bottom. (I've got questions: Look for the big red text)

I'm Calvin Reeder, I'm 16 years old, 17 on the 14th, and I live in Oregon. I play center and left field for my school's baseball team, and until this year, I was an outside linebacker on the football team. I'm working towards my International Baccalaureate degree, which is a big part of why I can't be all that active. I'm generally a pretty good student, particularly in math (IB Pre-Calc and AP Stats) and Spanish.

As for my personality (specifically related to DF), I hope you've kinda got a feel for that already. In game, I always put a huge emphasis on playing with honor. I've never liked spawnkilling (unless it's from the top of a mountain w/ a tank. That's cool), and never really saw the point to it. Seems more interesting to let them get up and let them fight their way out of a corner. Teamkilling and all that crap doesn't fly, of course. Killing guys in parachutes was just a fun challenge, if that's still even a debate. I never liked it when players would try to get to the hangers/ carrier by going around the side or up high. The games can't support enough people to defend something like that. If we couild have 10-15 people per team, it'd be fine. I've always thought it was fun to be on the team with fewer players. 1-7 games are sweet!

I've always loved taking a parachute (What's the record for most kills from a chute now? I used to hold it with four), and I really hated when I first saw the update that made you climb out of your plane slowly instead of just teleporting out. I never saw much point to the walking soldier, his gun's pathetically weak. Unless there's something new that I haven't seen, he can't even kill hangers. I love using a tank, and used to be one of the best. Shooting planes down with one - even more fun than making them crash into the ground!

I've always been a head on fighter, I used to be one of the best. I never really liked turning, but I could hold my own against anyone who wasn't someone like Skydavis, Dawsonn, or Jasmine (Sky and D are gone now, I think. They used to be the two best turners in the game). It always pissed me off to watch Aspirants fly past me while I was fighting an Air Marshal.

I was a high-up in Enigma, and a close friend of Slender's, back when we were a real force. When squads first came out, it was just us and the 111th. We were pretty comparable, but we ran things differently. Enigma was supposed to kind of "Police the skies", and stuff like that. When squads first came out, the only mods were Slendy and Manfred, and the ever-present "Hidden Mods", so we tried to keep things in line. The 111th started out really immature, but they recruited like Hell. As a result, we got most of the older, more mature guys, and they got massive numbers of younger and less experienced players. Eventually, the 111th got it together, and we never really progressed. They had an active community on their website, squad elections, and all that stuff that Slender never implemented, and we couldn't really do much w/o him. So, when MOM came along, within a couple weeks, we had lost the majority of our members. Now, despite being one of the two original squads, we don't really have any pull. Oh well!

That's all I've got about me, for now. How about you guys? Fill me in on yourselves and the squads!

Questions:

1: Why does everyone have so damn many thank yous?
2: Why do I still hold the post count record? Step it up!
3: What's the situation w/ squads right now? What squads do what, who's the big powers, who's feuding and why, etc?
4: What's up with Z? He hasn't been really "active" since before I joined DF, why's he getting so much hate for it now? The servers have issues every once in a while, calm yourselves!
5: Has there actually been any word on squad wars, the 3 seat bomber, Capture the Flag, etc? THOSE have been being promised since before I joined!
6: Any rules, written or unwritten, that I haven't talked about here, or that you don't remember me knowing about? I've been gone a while, I must have missed something!

See ya in the skies!

1) Because either everyone's funny, or everyone's idiotic. You decide.
2) You posted ALL THE FRIKING TIME. I've seen past threads.
3) The big squads are M.O.M and Misfits, with Gunners Inc, Wolf Pack, Devils Dragons, and a couple others at the second tier. (No one cares, Swop.) M.O.M and Misfits are perpetually feuding because the Misfits are jealous and won't admit it. We're all down right now, though. Until this post.
4) Zuperman has taken away the mods, the game is falling apart at the seams with bugs and glitches, he promised us he'd send mods and hasn't, he only shows up to ask for money as the game just gets worse and worse. You'll see more about it tonight.
5) Nope. Not a word. Empty promises.
6) Don't think so.

Does that help?

Question 1.......don't know
Question 2........don't know
Question 3.........MISFITS NUMBER 1
Question 4.........I agree
Question 5..........don't know
Question 6......... new rule, please don't shoot DAVY CROCKETT. WE ALL LOVE THAT GUY

Welcome back sir awesome. I don't know if we ever played much together but I'm looking forward to seeing you.

I remember that you recruited me into enigma:) its good to hear from you again.

hi calvin, i'm hb from gunners inc. g.i is a pretty new squad in the full timeline of df. one thing i have really enjoyed learning about in my time here is the history of the game. sometimes i'll get to see old screen shots or read posts like yours. always very interesting to gain some insight from someone from the old days.

as a new player i have no concept of the old game. disappearing planes, mole planes, drunk zeppelins, someone needing 16 kills to win a dogfight, invincible planes....invisible planes also. all that stuff is very normal to me, i learned to play with all that in place. so to gain another perspective it is great to read the opinions of the older players and what they think about the game now. generally negative, but many old players are just keeping it going for the love of the game. i enjoy the game also, expect to see me around. nice to meet you.

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: 1: Why does everyone have so damn many thank yous?
2: Why do I still hold the post count record? Step it up!
3: What's the situation w/ squads right now? What squads do what, who's the big powers, who's feuding and why, etc?
4: What's up with Z? He hasn't been really "active" since before I joined DF, why's he getting so much hate for it now? The servers have issues every once in a while, calm yourselves!
5: Has there actually been any word on squad wars, the 3 seat bomber, Capture the Flag, etc? THOSE have been being promised since before I joined!
6: Any rules, written or unwritten, that I haven't talked about here, or that you don't remember me knowing about? I've been gone a while, I must have missed something!

Hey, Calvin! Long time, huh?

Well...

1) Zuperman has long since removed the Karma System because of some drama/glitches. You remember that, right? Well, obviously, since there's no other way for people to Like/Dislike you, we've resorted to a "Thank You" system that's no longer anonymous or negative. You either like the post or you shut up. Or you write another post yourself saying how you don't like the first post. But no more negative Karma.

2) For reasons explained in #1, people no longer look at your Karma level to judge you. They look at your post-to-Thank You's ratio; quality over quantity sort of thing. Looks like you're the one that needs to step your game up, hon. I'll give you a Thank You for old time's sake.

3) I don't partake in squad feuds, nor do I follow whatever superpowers are running around yelling at everyone and each other. It isn't hard to get in the drama, though. Just have a look around, you'll see what I mean.

4) Yes, "every once in awhile" would be applicable to the current situation; only if. There must be a proper justification in overall morale/faithfulness decreasing in Dogfight. The game was much more stable and Z/mods were much more active before as compared to now. Trust me on that.

5) Yes, those things have been promising prospects, for, like, EVER. No official word on progress for those, Cal. Sorry, and yes, we're all disappointed.

6) Rules now:

-Mods are never watching.
-Slenderman is just a scary bedtime story to 90% of the people here
-MOM is always watching.
-Lag is life now, get used to it.
-Zuperman was an awesome superhero that could fix all of our problems!!! Until he went dark. Probably to go fix his home planet or something.
-Sneaking around the map is BAD.
-Squad wars, maybe?
-World Chat is a combined cesspool of humanity's worst and dumbest. Have fun!
-Never take a side in a forum conflict.
-Unless it's winning.
-Camping is BAD.
-MORAF's are pretty much everywhere now. Have fun!
-Tanks suck at being heavy.
-The Jolly Roger is the only safe place in the forum.
-Glitches are life now, get used to it.
-Banners are sooo much better.
-Dropping your bombs is BAD.
-Shooting down a member of another squad the WRONG WAY will result in a forum squad war. Have fun!
-Squads have a member cap for some reason. Z says its for some "squad wars" myth, but I'm just guessing Z didn't like the really BIG squads. Don't blame me, NLR has like, 30 members.
-Put 5 of us in a server and it'll be a bloodbath.
-Put 10 and the server will crash. (pls help Z)
-We all wish we could take Thank You's away sometimes.
-Aspirants are put in a special happy place before joining the real Dogfight.
-Planes suck at being light.
-Tanks are now anti-air guns with wheels and an engine.
-Calvin is not awesome until he gets a proper avatar.
-Everyone here is either very old, egotistical, potty-mouthed, inconsiderate, smug, obnoxious, inactive, opinionated, pretentious, or weird. Pick three and put 'em together; you've got yourself an average Dogfighter. We all love each other with knives behind our backs; care for each other in such a strong way that we're willing to kill each other a thousand times instead of leaving to go to bed every night. We don't agree to disagree and we never shut up. Of course, you already knew that right? Some things never change.

It's a brave new world, with such people in it, Cal. Welcome back, and have fun!

-Luna

1) Some people get thank yous for posting a blank page.
2)we have lives i see you found one
3)Nothing but pipe dreams
4)who knows.peoples anger stem from a lack of response from emails to him(i haven't bothered)
5)No
6)No.

Apple users who wont update dont have the slow chute.Windows players the same.pc players can use mouse for chute control so im guessing your record is dust.you will also get out turned by any pc player regardless of what you fly.

I can't answer any better than the above. Just wanted to say Hi and Welcome Back. I'm not on much, maybe a couple games every few days. Stop by the Jolly Roger anytime; we've got great milkshakes, and classic bottled sodas.
Manfred

Good day sir Calvin (Awesome name by the way), I think I started shortly after you left. I have read some of your post. Hope to see you in the sky. Focus on the school work, Trust me (I'm 49), It is way more important later on in life. This game will only make you fatter, and dumber (If you read the forum).

Dummer? Huh?

Hello Calvin.

(Whenever I see your name I picture Spaceman Spiff)

I've been around for just about two years.

As for #6:

Zuperman has coded most of the rules into the game now. Back before you disappeared, going without moderators would have been a much bigger problem. Since you left, zup has added:
* foul language filters, auto mutes.
* tanks can't drive on the runways.
* Auto bans for teamkilling planes/zeps/hangars.

The biggest problems now are:
* trolls who don't sware.
* people trying to enforce rules that don't exist.
* rules don't exist.

I've spent some time searching for an official set of rules for game play. The only thing I can find is Slenderman' s "read before posting". Do you know of any other "official" rules? My opinion is that since there are none, complaining about how others play is worse for the game/community than the perceived offenses.

I wrote the following in response to a new players request for info.

McFate wrote: I'm very sorry for the conduct of many players of Dogfight. For some reason people are always trying to make rules for this game which has very few.


In fact, the only official "rules" are listed on a thread titled:

*Read before posting* Forum Rules/Etiquette


Under the section "Dogfight (in game) and Dogfight Forum Rules" eighteen rules are listed. The only one pertaining to in-game play is:

17. (In game only) Do not team kill, destroy our own bases or anything else that would be deemed "gameplay ruining"


The other "rules" are about various legal issues and various forms and types of communication. For example:

12. Do not bash other players or squadrons either in forum or in game.

13. Absolutely no flaming/trolling or heavy swearing. You will be banned for a certain amount of time which is at the discretion of the Admin/Mod.

14. Help new players.

16. We respect other people's thoughts, opinions and beliefs.

18. Remember: The use of Dogfight and forum is a privilege, not a right. The Dogfight staff reserves the right to revoke access and remove content without notice. This includes being muted or banned in game.

Mac- Yeah, 1&2 sound about right. 4&5... No comment. I mean, Z... come on! As much as I've always supported him, three years later, we don't really have any substantial new development.

Davy! Thanks for the clarification on the new rules. Muchas gracias Hope we get to play together soon.

J! Of course, that's my lasting legacy!

HB- Good to meet you, (One of two "New" guys to reply)! Oh, glitches are nothing new. Mole planes are new, and I don't know what that means. Maybe they aren't new. They sound awful/ cool though. Same with drunk zeps. The rest of the stuff is old hat. Is immunity a thing again? That used to pop up sometimes. (Luna, you were there) I'll explain that at the end of the post.

Luna! Your reply's gonna have to be a list.
1: Yeah, that sucks! I liked the karma system. (see attachments! )
2: Hey, I stepped my not-posting game up for a loooonggg time, hon!
3: Haha, well, at least it isn't the entire forum vs Sput, Blaine, Hamers, and us anymore! Remember the "TV Show" that you guys started?
4: I'll take you guys' word for it. That really sucks, though.
5: Great to hear that not much has changed.
6: So many... Just in response to a few - MOM was watching before MOM was a thing. Slenderman, in hindsight, probably lied every third thing he said. I'm not too upset about that. Who's idea was world chat? It's just combining all of the dumbest people in a single chatroom. MORAFs are just aspirants with zebra planes. I don't understand how a tank can suck at being heavy. Please explain that. Glitches are really that much worse? Great. Banners seem similarly bad. I plan on shooting everyone in every way, and letting flamers get themselves banned. Aspirants, as I mentioned earlier, are hiding in zebra planes waiting for me to shoot them. I don't understand how a plane can suck at being light. Do engines fail sometimes? Tanks are now my favorite thing (to shoot). The last point makes no sense. That hasn't changed, at least. And, lastly, thanks, I will!

Oh, and Calvin's managed for a long time without a proper avatar or banner, and is okay with that. Calvin also does not take many pictures of himself. He also should change his name to something that didn't come out of a 13 year old.

Jeff - Yup, all seems true. And yes, I did, and yes, it took a while!

Manfred - Hi yourself, and I may take you up on that. I may need a bottled shake, though.

Von - You wouldn't happen to be THE Von, would you? Of 111th fame? And yeah, that all seems like sound advice. To this day, Dogfight, spawnkill, teamkill, and Slenderman all get abbreviated, wherever I'm writing. Scientists like to study this unique phenomenon, though.

McFate - I could swear I remember you! I guess not, I doubt you'd forget all 5k of my posts. Too many of them were loudmouthed.

Thanks all for the kind welcome back!

Oh, check the attatchments below.

:EDIT: The attatchments exceed the max size Z allows. Hold on.

:RE-EDIT:

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: Haha, well, at least it isn't the entire forum vs Sput, Blaine, Hamers, and us anymore! Remember the "TV Show" that you guys started?

I had absolutely no part in that.

No.

Part.

I thought we agreed to never speak of this again...

I like to think of myself as THE VON, but I'm not VonPay, haven't seen him in the air for a long time. I'm just VonHulk, but I'm flying as VonEggNog. For Chrictmas, lol

i think von pay has left the skies for good, ive seen him once since i started flying, and that was a year ago. hulk is the von of the misfits...even if it is eggnog (btw hulk i promised dest i was going to find you and eat you)

welcome back calvin! err....maybe i should just say welcome...cause i never knew you.....

Who is never watching? Lol

Btw welcome back Calvin.

Haha, reread that thread last night - Yeah, you had nothing to do with it. That whole thing was creepy as Hell.

By the way, do you still prefer Luna, or your real name?

Calm down, Jacob. She said "mods" - plural.

*111|Von Flush wrote: i think von pay has left the skies for good, ive seen him once since i started flying, and that was a year ago. hulk is the von of the misfits...even if it is eggnog (btw hulk i promised dest i was going to find you and eat you)

welcome back calvin! err....maybe i should just say welcome...cause i never knew you.....

Eat me huh? I,,,,,,, uhm,,,,,,,,,yeah. I'm not gonna touch that one. lol